Glove-fastening



(No Model.)

B. PRINGLE. GLOVE FASTENING.

' No. 429,177. Patented J1'1ne'3, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE PRINGLE, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MADISON D. SHIPMAN AND CHARLES E. BRADT, BOTH OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

GLOVE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,177, dated June 3, 1890.

Application filed $eptember 8, 1888. Serial No. 284,946. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE PRINGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gloversville, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in separable Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My inventionrelates to improvements in separable buttons; and it consists in the devices and parts and combinations of devices and parts hereinafter particularly described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide in a button-head of a separable button an elastic stud-catch which will be integral with the holding-flange, by which it is held in place by operation of said flange with other parts of the button-head; second, to combine with an elastic stud-catch which has a solid flange integral with it an eyelet-holding device, by which the stud-catch will be secured to the outer inclosing-shell of the button-head, and, lastly, to provide specific combinations of means whereby the elastic stud-catch, with its connected solid flange, will be attached to the material and securely held with the outer shell of the button-head. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a sectional elevation of a button-head embodying the improvements in this invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, with some of the parts shown with a modified form of construction. Fig. 3 is another modification of the same in some of its other parts. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the improved elastic stud-catch embodied in my improved button-head. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the eyelet-holding piece employed with the stud-catch when constructed as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. Sis a sectional view of the stud-catch, with a modified form of solid flange and eyelet-holding piece which can be employed in a button-head. Fig. 9 is a sectional elevation illustrating the elastic stud-catch with the solid flange of reduced diameter and pieces uniting it with the fastenin g-eyelet operating with the upper half portion of the buttonhead of a separable button. Fig. 10 is a plan view of the elastic stud-catch and its solid. flange as employed in Fig. 9 and when de tached from the button-head, as shown in Fig. 9. Fig. 11 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 12 is a plan view of the stud-catch-holding piece employed with the studcatch shown in Figs. 9 and 11. Fig. 13 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 14 is a plan view of the fastening-eyelet employed with the stud-catch and its holding-piece, as shown in Fig. 9. Fig. 15 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 16 is a plan view of the lower side holding-piece, which can be employed in connection with the studcatch shown in Fig. 9. Fig. 17 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 18 is a plan view of another modified form of elastic stud-catch which can be used in a button-head, as shown in Fig.2. Fig. 19 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 20 is a plan view of the piece which can be employed with the stud-catch, as illustrated in Fig. 2. Fig.21 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 22 is a plan view of the fastening-eyelet which can be employed, as illustrated in Fig. 2. Fig. 23 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 2 1 is a plan view of the stud-catch and piece holding the same which can be employed in a button-head, as illustrated in Fig. Fig. 25 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 26 is a sectional View of the stud-catch and the binding-piece which holds the stud-l1olding piece in place with the eyelet-holding piece, as illustrated in Fig. 3. Fig. 27 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 28 is a sectional view of the stud-catchholding piece shown to be employed in Fig. 3. Fig. 29 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 30 is a sectional view of the eyelet-holding piece shown to be employed in Fig. 3. Fig. 31 is a plan view of the same.

The same letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents the improved elastic stud-catch employed in the buttonhead. This catch is made of thin metal struck or spun in form, so as to have a conical or tapering form of bore a. The walls a of this catch are made integral with a flange a in Figs. 1, 4c, 5, and 8. This stud-catch is shown in Fig. 4 to have its connected flange A made with a large diameter, so as to be used with the eyelet-holding piece B, (shown in Figs. 1 and 8,) and is shown to be secured with piece B in one case, as in Fig. 1, by a clinchingflange a of the holding-flange A turned on the outer margin of said piece B, while in Fi 8 piece B is shown to have a clinching-flange I) turned on the flange A of the stud-catch A.

In Figs. 9, 10, and 11 the holding-flange A of the elastic stud-catch A is shown to be of smaller diameter than that shown in Figs. 1, 5, and S. \Vhen this stud-catch is made integral with this reduced form of holding-flange A,as in Figs. 9 and 1l,it can be held in place by means of a holding-piece C (shown in Figs. 9, 12, and 13) by having its solid flange A hearing against the lower side of flange c of said piece C, while the upper end portion of the slitted stud-catch A will be turned on the upper edge of the slitted vertical wall 0, as shown in Fig. 9. )Vith this form of construet-ion of the solid flange A, made integral with the slitted spring-catch A, (shown in Fig. 11,) piece D, Figs. 9, 1G, and 17, can be employed against the lower side of the flange A of the stud catch and flange c of the catchholding piece C, as shown in Fig. 9, when this piece D can be secured with piece 0 and the fastening-eyelet E by the margin rim (Z of piece D clinching the flange of the eyelet E, as shown in Fig. 9, or a portion of the rim of the eyelet can be turned down on piece I) to hold it with the said holding-piece.

In Figs. 2, 18, and 19 the elastic stud-catch A is shown to have the flange A made integral with it of larger diameter than that shown in Figs. 9 and 11, for holding with the lower side of the flange c of the holding piece while the upper end portion of the stud-catch A is similar to that of the studcatch shown in Figs. 9 and 11, and is turned on the upper end of the vertical slitted wall 0. In Fig. 2 this holding-piece Ois shown to have its margin rim turned on the flange of the fastening-eyelet E, for holdingsaid catchholding piece with said eyelet.

In Fig. 3 the stud-catch A is shown to be of similar construction as to its connected flange A, and to be employed withthe catchholding piece 0, havingflange c and vertical slitted wall 0, substantially as has the catchholding piece Gin Figs. 2, 9, 13, and 21, and, like the catch shown in Figs. 2 and 9, the stud-catch A in Fig. 3 is held in place within the catch-holding piece C by its upper end being turned on the upper end of the vertical wall 0 of piece C, as illustrated in that figure and also in Fig. 25; and in Fig. 3 the cateh-holdingpiece O is shown to be clamped with the eyelet-holding piece 13 by the margin edge of binding-piece 13, Figs. 3, 25, and 26, being clinched on the upper side of the eyelet-holding piece B, as shown in said Fig.

When the stud-catch A is made to have its upper end spread outwardly and over the upper end of the vertical wall 0', as shown in 2, 3, 9, and 25, I would slit said catch with slits s s after the upper end portion was spread outwardly over said wall a of the holding-piece G, and at the same time make in the wall 0 slits s 5, (shown in Figs. 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 20, 21, and 29,) and these slits s and s are made, respectively, through the walls of catch A and flange c of piece C, and are carried down to or near to the respective flanges A and c of said pieces, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, 9, 21, 25, and 28.

It will be observed by reference to Figs. 5 and 1.9 that the inner side surface of the bore of catch A is made with such a degree of inwardly and upwardly incline past the bottom of slit .9 as to produce a less diameter of upper end of catch A than at the point where flange A is integral with the slitted walls a of said catch, so that the head of a eoacting stud having a diameter slightlyless than that of the opening through the flange A will be required to force outwardly to a small degree the slittcd walls a a of the catch A before said head can have passage through the same, as indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 5 and 19. \Vith this improved form of stud-catch audits adj unctive parts 13, C, and D any suitable form of upper side portion of button-head can be used, preference being given to the employment of the shell F shown in Figs. 1 and 3, when used with the eyelet E.shown in those figures, for holding the said shell connected with the eyelet-holding piece B and the stud-catch; or when the shell F is constructed as in Fig. 2 the eyeletholding piece B can be employed connected with said shell, while the eyelet E in a reversed form in arrangement can be employed to connect the holding-piece C in connection with the shell.

Having described my invention, what I claim is-- 1. In the herein-described button-head of a separable button, the elastic stud-catch composed of the slitted tapering vertical wall having a solid holdingflange made integral with it, in combination with an eyelet which holds said elastic stud-catch secured to the outer shell of the button-head and attached to the material, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In the herein-described button-head of a separable button, the combination, with the elastic catch A, having a slitted tapering or conical formed body which is integral with the solid holding-flange A, of a fastening-eyelet and an eyelet-holding piece substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In the herein-described button-head of a separable button, the combination, with the piece A, having the tapering central opening a and slits s .9 extended down from the upper end of portion A to or near to the point of union of said slitted portion with the flange portion A, of an eyelet uniting said piece with the outer shell of the buttonhead, substantially as and for the purposes slitted device spread outwardly over the up- 10 set forth. per end of the flange c of the said catch- 4. In a button-head of a separable button, holding piece, of a fastening-eyelet, an eyeletthe combination, with the stud-catch-holdholding piece, and an outer shell, substaning piece 0, having the slitted vertical annutially as and for the purposes set forth.

lar flange c, and the'tapering stud-holding EUGENE PRINGLE. device A, divided by slit 8 in the entire Vitnesses: length to or near to the holding-flange por- WVILLIAM F. SELKIRK,

tion A, with the upper end portion of said CHARLES SELKIRK. 

